Port Arthur is on the lower west bank of Sabine Lake and seventeen
miles southeast of Beaumont in southeast Jefferson County. Established
in 1895, by the fall of 1897 it had 860 residents, and the following
spring it was incorporated. The eruption of Spindletop on January 10,
1901, secured the city's future. Major oil companies like Gulf, Magnolia,
Humble, and Texaco, all emerged from the oil boom. Gulf in 1901 and
Texaco in 1902 built major refineries at Port Arthur. By 1909 Port Arthur
had become the twelfth largest port in the United States in value of
exports, and by 1914 it was the second largest oil-refining point in
the nation. By 1950 five refineries in the Port Arthur area employed
some 12,000 workers, whose salaries accounted for 50 percent of the
money spent in Port Arthur stores.

Frederick Miller (1907-1918)Chuck Schilling has done some investigation into this brewery. He
reports that there is no physical evidence of a brewery in Port Arthur,
and that Frederick Miller only ran a bottling plant which did not bottle
beer while he owned it.Chuck concludes, "It is my opinion
that the existence of this brewery cannot be corroborated and should
be looked upon with extreme skepticism."

Until more conclusive proof can be found, the Miller
brewery has a big question mark beside it.